tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131565232546223857.post5799705844790287230..comments2018-12-19T01:23:44.285-05:00Comments on Story of the Week: Abraham LincolnThe Library of Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17586915922688562543noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131565232546223857.post-2980313335708817012011-11-25T17:01:53.299-05:002011-11-25T17:01:53.299-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ntinos999https://www.blogger.com/profile/02932738409128077297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131565232546223857.post-13107477784094994922011-08-24T16:49:34.542-04:002011-08-24T16:49:34.542-04:00We totally have classes. Way to go bud, feel free ...We totally have classes. Way to go bud, feel free to look up the definition of class. Just because it isn&#39;t recognized by law doesn&#39;t mean it doesn&#39;t exist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131565232546223857.post-18183747370845592472011-06-15T07:33:58.658-04:002011-06-15T07:33:58.658-04:00The Emancipation Proclamation unfortunately did
NO...The Emancipation Proclamation unfortunately did<br />NOT free the slaves north of the Mason Dixon <br />line, on Southern territories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131565232546223857.post-41727296142577362112011-06-13T10:45:22.518-04:002011-06-13T10:45:22.518-04:00Yankee propaganda. Spinning was as alive and well...Yankee propaganda. Spinning was as alive and well in the 19th century as in the 21st.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131565232546223857.post-6150191554550567582011-06-13T02:15:17.747-04:002011-06-13T02:15:17.747-04:00Obviously you are not a member of the LGBT subclas...Obviously you are not a member of the LGBT subclass in this country. We are still struggling to obtain first class citizenship in this country, being only offered &quot;civil unions&quot; as a &quot;separate but equal&quot; means of being &quot;united,&quot; in a very few minority of states. A very few other states allow us to b married. However, the other states unconstitutionally (separation of church and state, equal protection under the law, and full faith and credit clause) refuse to recognize marriage, or even the civil union status. We still pay &quot;first class&quot; taxes but only receive &quot;second class&quot; benefits, if that, especially from the Federal Government due to the illegal DOM law. Only LGBT citizens have the distinction of having their rights voted down by other citizens in this country. I obviously mistakenly thought that the Bill of Rights existed to protect the rights of the minority from the wrath of the majority. Even LGBT citizens in the military have to suffer the indignity of serving in foreign wars only to have their discharges under the illegal DADT law postponed until they get back to the States. And you say that there are no &quot;classes&quot; in the United States.bluedoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531562657263304337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131565232546223857.post-23977409951782044722011-06-12T12:36:40.303-04:002011-06-12T12:36:40.303-04:00The U.S. does not have &quot;classes.&quot; It ha...The U.S. does not have &quot;classes.&quot; It has no nobles, peasants or fiefs of any kind. It has rich and poor, powerful and weak, fortunate and unfortunate, but none are relegated by law to a &quot;class.&quot; Slavery was a &quot;class&quot; and this was fought in the battle led by Lincoln who was president of the U.S. at the time of the Civil War. This war eliminated any &quot;class&quot; structure protected by law but the U.S. was still left with many problems to solve, economic difficulties, ethnic hostilities, etc. Some of these problems are still actively being solved. The economic problem of finding workers forced to work in the oppressive heat of the southland had been solved by technologies which had been shown to southern landowners before the conflagration but who were reluctant to change traditional southern patterns and their own sense of &quot;superiority.&quot; One famous example was the cotton gin invented before that time, which was an economic advance to the landowner and should have helped do away with &quot;need&quot; for slaves. But the resort of the police action (enforcement of the law banning slavery) within the nation of the U.S. was finally required according to the majority of the will of the people of the entire nation as represented in Congress.Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01715154255281768618noreply@blogger.com